Intel SE7500CW2 Hardware Guide - Page 21

Intel® Server Board SE7500CW2 6. Installation Guidelines Installation Guidelines 6.1 SE7500CW2 system won't boot to DOS with an Adaptec* card installed. Issue: SE7500CW2 system boots to the Adaptec SMOR utility instead of booting into DOS. Implication: When running the Adaptec card in "EBDA relocation" mode the system will not boot. If Adaptec's card "EBDA Relocation" mode is disabled on SE7500CW2 BIOS 1.12 the card will perform correctly under some circumstances. Guideline: Create boot disks using Windows 98 DOS instead of DOS 6.22 or the ROMDOS shipped on the resource CD. Status: This issue is resolved with a new release of the Adaptec BIOS and SE7500CW2 BIOS 1.16. The Adaptec BIOS v1.30 should work correctly. BIOS 1.16 and 1.17 are now available for the SE7500CW2. Both should work properly with this card. 6.2 Windows 2000* won't install on a Maxtor D540X-4G 137GIG ATA hard-drive Issue: Larger than 137GIG Maxtor ATA hard-drives don't give proper disk space information in Windows 2000 and are not recognized during the installation process. Implication: Windows 2000 installation won't find this 137GIG hard-drive. The current Promise drivers won't allow for this hard-drive to be recognized. Guideline: Status: None. Promise RAID driver build 1.14 (PDC20627) allows for this hard-drive to install Windows 2000. Pending production release of this driver from Promise, * please contact Promise* for availability. Revision 1.50 17